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1. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries.

Author

Gharahkhani, Puya, Jorgenson, Eric, Hysi, Pirro, Khawaja, Anthony P, Pendergrass, Sarah, Han, Xikun, Ong, Jue Sheng, Hewitt, Alex W, Segrè, Ayellet V, Rouhana, John M, Hamel, Andrew R, Igo, Robert P, Choquet, Helene, Qassim, Ayub, Josyula, Navya S, Cooke Bailey, Jessica N, Bonnemaijer, Pieter WM, Iglesias, Adriana, Siggs, Owen M, Young, Terri L, Vitart, Veronique, Thiadens, Alberta AHJ, Karjalainen, Juha, Uebe, Steffen, Melles, Ronald B, Nair, K Saidas, Luben, Robert, Simcoe, Mark, Amersinghe, Nishani, Cree, Angela J, Hohn, Rene, Poplawski, Alicia, Chen, Li Jia, Rong, Shi-Song, Aung, Tin, Vithana, Eranga Nishanthie, NEIGHBORHOOD consortium, ANZRAG consortium, Biobank Japan project, FinnGen study, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium, GIGA study group, 23 and Me Research Team, Tamiya, Gen, Shiga, Yukihiro, Yamamoto, Masayuki, Nakazawa, Toru, Currant, Hannah, Birney, Ewan, Wang, Xin, Auton, Adam, Lupton, Michelle K, Martin, Nicholas G, Ashaye, Adeyinka, Olawoye, Olusola, Williams, Susan E, Akafo, Stephen, Ramsay, Michele, Hashimoto, Kazuki, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Akiyama, Masato, Momozawa, Yukihide, Foster, Paul J, Khaw, Peng T, Morgan, James E, Strouthidis, Nicholas G, Kraft, Peter, Kang, Jae H, Pang, Chi Pui, Pasutto, Francesca, Mitchell, Paul, Lotery, Andrew J, Palotie, Aarno, van Duijn, Cornelia, Haines, Jonathan L, Hammond, Chris, Pasquale, Louis R, Klaver, Caroline CW, Hauser, Michael, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Mackey, David A, Kubo, Michiaki, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Craig, Jamie E, MacGregor, Stuart, and Wiggs, Janey L

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NEIGHBORHOOD consortium, ANZRAG consortium, Biobank Japan project, FinnGen study, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium, GIGA study group, and Me Research Team, Humans, Glaucoma, Open-Angle, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, European Continental Ancestry Group, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Glaucoma, Open-Angle, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), is a heritable common cause of blindness world-wide. To identify risk loci, we conduct a large multi-ethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies on a total of 34,179 cases and 349,321 controls, identifying 44 previously unreported risk loci and confirming 83 loci that were previously known. The majority of loci have broadly consistent effects across European, Asian and African ancestries. Cross-ancestry data improve fine-mapping of causal variants for several loci. Integration of multiple lines of genetic evidence support the functional relevance of the identified POAG risk loci and highlight potential contributions of several genes to POAG pathogenesis, including SVEP1, RERE, VCAM1, ZNF638, CLIC5, SLC2A12, YAP1, MXRA5, and SMAD6. Several drug compounds targeting POAG risk genes may be potential glaucoma therapeutic candidates.

Published
2021

2. Genome-wide association study of primary open-angle glaucoma in continental and admixed African populations.

Author

Bonnemaijer, Pieter WM, Iglesias, Adriana I, Nadkarni, Girish N, Sanyiwa, Anna J, Hassan, Hassan G, Cook, Colin, GIGA Study Group, Simcoe, Mark, Taylor, Kent D, Schurmann, Claudia, Belbin, Gillian M, Kenny, Eimear E, Bottinger, Erwin P, van de Laar, Suzanne, Wiliams, Susan EI, Akafo, Stephen K, Ashaye, Adeyinka O, Zangwill, Linda M, Girkin, Christopher A, Ng, Maggie CY, Rotter, Jerome I, Weinreb, Robert N, Li, Zheng, Allingham, R Rand, Eyes of Africa Genetics Consortium, Nag, Abhishek, Hysi, Pirro G, Meester-Smoor, Magda A, Wiggs, Janey L, NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium, Hauser, Michael A, Hammond, Christopher J, Lemij, Hans G, Loos, Ruth JF, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Thiadens, Alberta AHJ, and Klaver, Caroline CW

Subjects
GIGA Study Group, Eyes of Africa Genetics Consortium, NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium, Humans, Glaucoma, Open-Angle, Vesicular Transport Proteins, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Middle Aged, African Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Male, Thioredoxin Reductase 2, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Neurodegenerative, Human Genome, Aging, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision, Genetics, Neurosciences, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetics & Heredity, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine
Abstract

Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is a complex disease with a major genetic contribution. Its prevalence varies greatly among ethnic groups, and is up to five times more frequent in black African populations compared to Europeans. So far, worldwide efforts to elucidate the genetic complexity of POAG in African populations has been limited. We conducted a genome-wide association study in 1113 POAG cases and 1826 controls from Tanzanian, South African and African American study samples. Apart from confirming evidence of association at TXNRD2 (rs16984299; OR[T] 1.20; P = 0.003), we found that a genetic risk score combining the effects of the 15 previously reported POAG loci was significantly associated with POAG in our samples (OR 1.56; 95% CI 1.26-1.93; P = 4.79 × 10-5). By genome-wide association testing we identified a novel candidate locus, rs141186647, harboring EXOC4 (OR[A] 0.48; P = 3.75 × 10-8), a gene transcribing a component of the exocyst complex involved in vesicle transport. The low frequency and high degree of genetic heterogeneity at this region hampered validation of this finding in predominantly West-African replication sets. Our results suggest that established genetic risk factors play a role in African POAG, however, they do not explain the higher disease load. The high heterogeneity within Africans remains a challenge to identify the genetic commonalities for POAG in this ethnicity, and demands studies of extremely large size.

Published
2018

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